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12:31 AM

@Phrancis In some languages, it is

I say Python is about as aesthetic as a language gets, you type pseudo-code and it works

That doesn't mean more people will do it

@Phrancis hehe

If coding was meant to be really easy maybe more people would do it

well if it means I don't have to spend money on a data plan I think it's worth the agony

12:33 AM

Wait, it's agony?

@MarsUltor Separate conversation

I'm talking about dial up internet

TIL dialup is agony

Is it not?

My memories of dial up are fuzzy at best. I was just a wee lad :P

12:47 AM

@Phrancis I wouldn't say that's a good thing though

Depends who you ask I guess

Maybe that's both the good and bad side of Python; it's pseudo-code that's actually real code

@MarsUltor @quartata dialup was complete agony

I would only accept dialup at gun point today

That's pretty much what I remember lol. Thankfully my parents adopted DSL early

This actually reminds me, getting a Sega Dreamcast on release day many years ago, and I remember playing Chu Chu Rocket over dialup

It worked, for some values of "works"

@Phrancis Is that the one where you're guiding the mice away from the cats

It annoyed my parents though at the time, because when I played, nobody could make phone calls

12:56 AM

I never played but I remember a friend had it

@Phrancis one of the other joys of dial up :P

@quartata I think it was more about guiding the mice to a rocket to launch, but there may have been cats. Been a very long time

anything with cats must be good

Chu Chu Rocket (Dreamcast)

►

@Phrancis Wow, that's chaotic

lol "mouse mania"

I don't necessarily miss that. There were much better games on Dreamcast

This was a Japanese HYPERDIAPER game, I mostly played it because my best friend liked it

1:00 AM

Jet Set Radio and Sonic Adventure were pretty much the two Dreamcast games I really enjoyed

I thought Sonic Adventure was great

Never really played Jet Set Radio, though I heard some people say it was good. Also, Shen Mue.

Chu Chu Rocket was special though, because it was one of the first console games ever to support playing online. At the time, Counter-Strike, TFC and Starcraft were what people played online

I wonder if some people still play those old games...

I doubt the servers for any Dreamcast games are still alive.

TFC and CS1.6 are actually still super active. (CS1.6 is one of the most played games on Steam still)

Wow

I'll bet de_dust is still the most played map on CS1.6 then... I'm a bit surprised people haven't moved on, but also recall most CS 1.6 players I knew were quite serious about it

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'in bagging area'

1:16 AM

@Phrancis dust2

but yes hehe

dust2 was my undoing

It still is even in CS:S and CS:GO

Original dust was better

Still remember all the times I got AWP across the underpass

Good times...

OMG Day of Defeat is still a thing... I loved that game

BRB going back in time to teenage years

Day of Defeat is still moderately active although there's more European servers than NA servers

I think Call of Duty ruined WW2 shooters quite a bit by making it feel like run&gun, and not like "find a good strategic spot and carefully guard it and play it to your advantage"

Hey @Phrancis, this chat is supposed to be about code golfing and challenges

1:28 AM

strawpoll.me/10086575

Feel free to move my messages to another room, I would do the same if this were Code Reviiew

Anyone see this?

@Phrancis you should become a mod and just eleven it

... coulda sworn he already was a mod...

but no?

@Phrancis were you ever a mod?

No

I'm a RO on CR, that's about it

1:30 AM

hm

@Downgoat why isn't PHP on this list

I can't keep you CR high-rep users straight.

I have thought Quill was a mod also.

and I used to think @quartata was.

@Phrancis oh nice, our mods would never let any of us become ROs, ~~we're to immature~~ we don't have enough avocad to bribe them.

lol PHP'; drop table Users;--

@quartata I hope ~~PHP~~ that's a joke

1:31 AM

@VTCAKAVSMoACE ɪᴋʀ :ᴅ

@Downgoat ikr

My SQL injection is rusty

despite numerous pleas

@Phrancis That's not PHP's fault though.

@quartata it is

It is, if you're still using mysqli

1:33 AM

that's why you don't use that

You should totally try Code Review then

@Phrancis ಠ_ಠ

2 votes for Node JS? Very suspicious

one was me

If I had a nickel for every new question that didn't use PDO, I'd be retired

1:34 AM

php is hate, php is hell

^

@Phrancis can i has nickel for every letter in every post on cr?

@Phrancis hahaha

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ PHP is like Perl with bonus things

@quartata For some values of "bonus"

@quartata Usually bonus things are good... this is not one of those cases

1:36 AM

@quartata ... perl is also bad

@Downgoat Do you have an actual reason for this logic or.....

he does'nt need one

^

it's perl or php

both are bad

pick FOG or Cheddar or Jolf instead

OK, well then this is happening:

JS is bad

1:37 AM

I have done PHP and it is the language of the devil

@quartata ಠ_ಠ

@Downgoat Well I don't need a reason. It's JS.

oooooooooohhh @Downgoat use jolf as package manager

@Downgoat same

@quartata true

you don't need reason

JS : PHP :: crap : shit

but that doesn't mean it is true

@Downgoat .. so equal?

TIL JS is PHP in disguise.

no, shit is worse than crap in terms of connotation

1:38 AM

oh

Connotation? So they're both just figures of speech for assembly?

Don't start a JS holy war again pls

^

START A FUZZY OCTO GUACAMOLE ONE

I should upload one of my PHP utility scripts and show you what well written PHP looks like

ALL MUST BOW TO FOG

@quartata pls no

1:40 AM

@quartata "well written PHP" is an oxymoron

^

@quartata post it on Code Review

^

Nicely written PHP would be a welcome change

actually good idea, to improve php skills

1:41 AM

Most of it is $sht

rofl

oh, only php would have $shit already defined. :P

LOL

s/LOL/\*stars\*/ pls

Well written anything must be OOP

Nah

1:42 AM

:(

not-OOP is fine, if it's not crap

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Why escape the asterisks?

^

sed is not regex

@MarsUltor Because you have to

But OOP > everything

1:43 AM

No

OOP > some things

@quartata No, why would you?

@MarsUltor regex asterisks means repeat?

50 secs ago, by Downgoat

sed is not regex

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ That's the replacement string, not the match string

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

oh

#oops

#ohwell

New Sandboxed Posts

1:44 AM

0

Hacker Typer code-golf Introduction hackertyper.net is a website that simulates "hacking" (as the media portrays it) by outputting complicated code from the crypto section of the Linux kernel onto the screen as you type at a rate if 3 characters per one inputted. Challenge Your program sho...

codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/3184/14509 doesn't this need a win condition

yeah

i'm hesitant to close vote because it's weird to me that it got to 33 points and no one else close voted

so i thought maybe i missed something

idk

oh it's old as hell

that's why

1:49 AM

VTC IT TO DEATH

@Phrancis lemme make sure it still works first lmao

Cyoce

...

why the hell did you hardlink

try the normal link:

I just spent 20 minutes deciding whether to start an email with 'Hi' or 'Hey', so I think it transferred correctly.

Wow just while writing up the question I already noticed something real easy I could do

Cyoce

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ BECAUSE THE MOBILE VERSION OF CHAT IS GARBAGE

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

1:54 AM

sorry about that

solution: bring computer everywhere

New Sandboxed Posts

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Scramble a Rubik's Cube code-challenge Create a function or program that given an integer n > 0, generates a scramble using n moves. The result will then be tested using Kociemba's Cube solver to count the minimum number of moves m needed to solve it. Your score is then m/n which is higher (goe...

Cyoce

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ more specifically: because the mobile version of chat is garbage, the XKCD apps are garbage, my phone is too slow to run chrome, and I refuse to sink to the level of using safari.

Dang @EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ you are finding dupes quick, are you the new Peter?

I. Am. PETER V2.0!!!

Why does everybody post owl faces so much?

?

1:56 AM

this is going to be good